Mom Works It Out by Angela Gillis

Angela May 2, 2019

Healthy eating and travel: can it work?

I’ve been traveling for the past week, and I’m still going. I’m not sure if travel and healthy eating can go in the same sentence, but I’m going to try to make some sense of the whole thing. Situation #1: You hardly travel and decide to live your life and not care about what you’re eating. Situation #2: You travel frequently, but maintain some balance but fall into the trap of “it’s not like I’m HERE every day” so you can enjoy so local cuisine. Situation #3: You don’t care either way. This person is probably not reading this blog…

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Angela May 1, 2019

Mom works on re-introducing herself

I’m Angela and I’m working on re-introducing myself to you. I’m just a woman who lost 200 pounds (a combined total of 500 pounds with my husband) and fell in love with running who then fell into motherhood. I learned along the way that healthy living encompasses the mind, body, and soul. That’s where I am today. Trying to balance it all and encourage others to tackle the journey they think is impossible. Most importantly, I am a mom to a beautiful 2-year-old who is referred to as Tiny Tot on this blog. Weight loss is the catalyst to it…

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Angela April 24, 2019

One tough mother can. Motherhood isn’t the …

Sometimes I feel like women people say they want a family or are pregnant, there’s just a bunch of negativity that automatically comes back. The world is suddenly filled with all the things you “can’t” and “won’t” want to do. It’s more than unfair that people expected me to give up my dreams or dim my light due to the fact I was a popping put a baby. Why as a woman are we challenged by what we want to do when having a child, but a man isn’t? One tough mother can find a way to find her “all.”…

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Angela April 18, 2019

The Flying Pig marathon training update

It’s time for the marathon training update. The Flying Pig Marathon is two weeks away, so the peak of the training cycle is now complete. For this training cycle, I hired a running coach to help guide me through the marathon training process. Hiring the coach helped me push through some of those tough times and gave me some excellent accountability. Plus, if I had questions, someone could always give me the answers. How has marathon training gone for me this time around? I feel like there has been a struggle this time around. March turned out to be a…

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Angela April 15, 2019

Focusing too much on losing weight?

There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of focus, but sometimes it can get in the way. Is it possible to have too much emphasis on a weight loss journey? I may be living proof of the point. The initial weight loss journey was strict. I stayed on plan all the time because I wanted to lose weight so bad. I lost the weight, but there were moments when I felt like I wasn’t living life. In retrospect, I see I was a living a rigorous regiment and maybe that it was I needed to get over the hump of…

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Angela April 10, 2019

Healthy eating and the toddler

Healthy eating for the toddler just doesn’t seem to be happening. It’s been a huge struggle in my life lately because she’s only into bread, crackers, cheese, or macaroni and cheese. The things she once ate, she doesn’t eat anymore. I don’t really know what happened but my child has taken the wrong turn in her eating journey. And she’s adamant about it too. She will just not eat the food that is placed in front of her. She will not eat all day. She’s a trooper. The food will sit out in hopes of her getting hungry and wanting to…

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Angela April 3, 2019

Episode #8: Life after weight loss

We Beat Fat Episode #8: Life after weight loss From the kitchen table: What’s been happening this week? This week’s podcast: life after weight loss The podcast is new so we are taking suggestions on topics to cover. Contact us: webeatfat@gmail.com or on social media Angela: blog: momworksitout.com, Instagram – @momworksitout, twitter – @momworksitout, fb – fb.com/momworksitoutblog Willie: Instagram – @williegillis Topic of the week: Life after weight loss Many people have asked about losing weight and keeping off or in Willie’s case, gaining it back. This episode of the podcast you have a candid chat about losing weight…

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Angela March 27, 2019

Weekly Meal Plan: Chicken in the Instapot

The meal plan hasn’t really been something I’ve been talking about, but we’ve still been cooking it up. I don’t always eat the meals for dinner, it might pop us as a lunch thing, but at least it gets eaten, right? I love Indian food. My town only has one place to eat Indian food but I don’t always make it out. This week I decided it was time to try some Butter Chicken in the instapot. Spoiler alert: the chicken turned out great. I used both chicken breast and thighs. And it was served with a side of coconut…

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Angela March 24, 2019

Friday file: Sunday night edition

I know, I’m sorry. I left the blog vacant for a week because I’ve just been tired. Last weekend was a huge running weekend for me. That kind of threw my whole week off because I ran both Saturday and Sunday. I wasn’t at home to get stuff done around the house or get ready for work. That one day of prep kind of pushed everything off. Daily life has been busy this week. I ran two half marathons back to back. I’ve been working with a running coach because I am really improving. I see progress which is really…

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Angela March 14, 2019

App review: The Peleton Digital app

Peleton is a huge success and came onto the scene with that insane bike that people are raving over. I’m sad to say that I don’t have one, but I want one. I can probably justify getting one now that I’ve lost one of my cycle classes. I do have a cycle back in my living room so I did make the decision to try the app. I’ll be real with you, I tried the app a while ago and it was $12.95/month. I thought it was insanely expensive to pay that much for the app. At the time, it…

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Angela March 13, 2019

Episode #7: Inspirations and motivations

We Beat Fat Episode #7: Inspirations and motivations From the kitchen table: What’s been happening this week? This week’s podcast: inspiration and motivations. The podcast is new so we are taking suggestions on topics to cover. Contact us: webeatfat@gmail.com or on social media Angela: blog: momworksitout.com, Instagram – @momworksitout, twitter – @momworksitout, fb – fb.com/momworksitoutblog Willie: Instagram – @williegillis The topic of the week: Inspirations and motivations Definition of motivation: the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way. Motivations are internal features. Definition of inspiration: the process of being…

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